Oregon State Police arrested a Grants Pass man early Wednesday morning for allegedly firing a gun into the air in the parking lot of a Merlin bar.

A few minutes past midnight, an OSP trooper patrolling in the 900-block of Galice Road in Merlin heard gun shots from the area of Romar's Hideaway Sports Bar & Grill. When the trooper stopped a passenger car leaving the parking lot, a male passenger fled the vehicle on foot.